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Jeremy Olexa wrote: |
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> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o> wrote: |
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>> I'm wondering what exactly is the harm in letting developers idle for a |
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>> while? While they might not be actively committing they are still |
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>> knowledgeable people that are just as capable as everyone else to push in a |
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>> fix for small packages. There's lots of bugs in bugzilla with items that |
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>> just need someone active to commit them. There's even a lot of these items |
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>> are filed by retired Gentoo developers who could have easily pushed this fix |
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>> for all users. The fact that someone only does one commit a year does not |
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>> marginalize their contribution. While it may be small it is improving the |
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>> overall quality of the distro. I'm constantly seeing developers getting |
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>> upset over getting pushed out. |
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> |
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> The problem comes when $idle_dev has XX bugs assigned to them and they |
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> don't get resolved and no one else knows that there are issues. |
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As opposed to those same bugs being assigned to maintainer-needed and getting |
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lots of attention? |
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Marijn |
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Sarcasm puts the iron in irony, cynicism the steel. |
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Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode |
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